Mary Hoade

Mary Hoade is a Fianna Fáil Councillor for the Tuam Local Electoral Area on Galway County Council.
She was first elected as Oranmore area Fianna Fáil councillor in the 1999 Irish local elections In 2013, boundary changes forced a move to the Tuam electoral area, but she has continued to be re-elected in every election since. In 2025, she was elected Leas Cathaoirleach.
After these elections, she was selected as Mayor of Galway as part of a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael pact.
On 28 May 2015, she was selected as one of three candidates to contest the Galway West constituency, along with Éamon Ó Cuív and former Galway City Councillor, John Connolly. At the 2016 general election, Hoade won only 3.4% of the first-preference votes, and was not elected.